Who Wrote the Book of Love?
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Who Wrote the Book of Love?

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Who Wrote the Book of Love? is acclaimed novelist Lee Siegel's comedic chronicle of the sexual life of an American boy in Southern California in the 1950s. Starting at the beginning of the decade, in the year that Stalin announced that the Soviet Union had developed an atomic bomb, the book opens with a child's first memory of himself. Closing at the end of the decade, whe...more
Hardcover, 248 pages
Published August 1st 2005 by University of Chicago Press (first published 2005)
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Interesting, witty voice but not enough to keep me reading the extra blab in there.
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So-so. Best thing is the bland voice.
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Lee A. Siegel is a novelist and professor of religion at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. He is not related to the critic Lee Siegel. In 1988 Siegel was a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellow [1]. He has received numerous fellowships and grants including five Senior Research Fellowships from the American Institute of Indian Studies and the Smithsonian Institute (1979, 1983, 1987, 199...more
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